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    Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (/ˈvoʊltə, ˈvɒltə/, Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist...
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    Voltaic pile (redirect from Volta's pile)
    chemist Alessandro Volta, who published his experiments in 1799. Its invention can be traced back to an argument between Volta and Luigi Galvani, Volta's fellow...
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    is a term invented by the late 18th-century physicist and chemist Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action....
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  • Gimnasio Alessandro Volta is a private Italian international school in Usaquén, Bogotá, Colombia. It has scuola infanzia (preschool) through secondaria...
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  • Look up volta or Volta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Volta may refer to: Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric...
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    Reprinted in: Volta, Alessandro (1816) Collezione dell'Opere del Cavaliere Conte Alessandro Volta … [Collection of the works of Count Alessandro Volta … ]. (in...
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    178..274M. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.05.018. Volta, Alessandro (1777) Lettere del Signor Don Alessandro Volta ... Sull' Aria Inflammable Nativa Delle Paludi...
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  • 9 March 2011. "2004 Toyota Alessandro Volta Concept". RSportsCars.com. Retrieved 28 May 2009. "2004 Toyota Alessandro Volta". Serious Wheels. Retrieved...
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    Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, scientist Alessandro Volta, and Cosima Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner and long-term director...
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    cell or voltaic cell, named after the scientists Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, respectively, is an electrochemical cell in which an electric current...
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    architecture is named after 18th–19th century Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. It was Nvidia's first chip to feature Tensor Cores, specially designed...
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  • (1929–2020), Italian-born American Olympic fencer Alessandro Venturella (born 1984), British musician Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist Alex Zanardi...
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    and more power would be available on discharge. Italian physicist Alessandro Volta built and described the first electrochemical battery, the voltaic...
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  • surface of the second metal (or electrolyte). The Volta potential is named after Alessandro Volta. When two metals are electrically isolated from each...
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    Volt (category Alessandro Volta)
    Galvani, Alessandro Volta developed the so-called voltaic pile, a forerunner of the battery, which produced a steady electric current. Volta had determined...
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    of Alessandro Volta (where hundreds of scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries are exhibited, some belonging to Alessandro Volta). The...
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    in the 1760s, and by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson in the 1770s. Alessandro Volta, a professor of experimental physics in the University of Pavia, was...
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  • advertised as Univolta Università Telematica Privata Alessandro Volta (Online Private University Alessandro Volta) www.univolta.ch, using the same address and/or...
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  • unit for electromotive force and potential difference, named after Alessandro Volta. Volt or Volts may also refer to: electron volt (eV), a unit of energy...
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    Galvani's scientific colleagues generally accepted his views, but Alessandro Volta rejected the idea of an "animal electric fluid," replying that the...
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    battery is similar to the first electrical battery invented in 1800 by Alessandro Volta, who used brine (salt water) instead of lemon juice. The lemon battery...
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    in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Carl Wilcke. Italian scientist Alessandro Volta improved and popularized the device in 1775, and is sometimes erroneously...
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    discovering pure metallic zinc in 1746. Work by Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta uncovered the electrochemical properties of zinc by 1800. Corrosion-resistant...
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    Marconi (€1.03) 5,000 lire, Vincenzo Bellini (€2.58) 10,000 lire, Alessandro Volta (€5.16) 20,000 lire, Tiziano Vecellio (€10.32) 50,000 lire, Gian Lorenzo...
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    research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct...
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  • Volta is the sixth studio album by the Icelandic singer Björk, released on 1 May 2007 by One Little Indian Records. It features contributions from multiple...
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    Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Stradivari, Cesare Beccaria, Alessandro Volta, and Alessandro Manzoni; and popes John XXIII and Paul VI originated in the...
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    electromotive force. The volt is named in honour of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), who invented the voltaic pile, possibly the first chemical...
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    scholars such as Antonio Scarpa and Camillo Golgi or the physicist Alessandro Volta. The museum was founded in 1936 and is currently located at Palazzo...
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    activity". This is the source of marsh gas methane as discovered by Alessandro Volta in 1776. The digestion process begins with bacterial hydrolysis of...
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